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"You'll never know what it's like to squeeze life out of your sacred passage."

— "Incels"

A pink haired radical feminist who spends more time attacking trans women and people with kinks then she does tackling women's issues. She's published several books, including the critically acclaimed You Can Come For Free At Home: The Case Against Prostitution, The Trans Menace: Lesbian Genocide and the Rape of Feminism, and her recent doctoral thesis, titled "Sacred Passage: The Divine Femininity in Flux and Flow".

Berserk Button: Calling her a TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist), which she thinks of as a slur.

Bondage Is Bad: The focus of the video "Is Bondage Feminist?", is that she has the belief that bondage is inherently sexist and glorified torture...not that she doesn't fantasize about it.

Jerkass: She compares trans women to monsters for being taller than cis women, calls trans women's vaginas through bottom surgery "fuckholes", and is always conceited and insulting. Eventually she gets called out on how she's just too much of an asshole to have a productive conversation with.

Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: In "The Aesthetic", it is revealed that she has a Ph D, and that her doctoral thesis was 'Sacred Passage: The Divine Femininity in Flux and Flow'.

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The Doctor

Welcome to the lab.

"It's fucking 2017, man."

— "What is Gender?"

Introduced in "What is Gender?", The Doctor usually shows up to explain complex concepts from a scientific standpoint. Usually.

Author Avatar: For their first two appearances, What is Gender? and What is Race? they are basically a stand in for Natalie. Later appearances have them as a completely different character separate to Natalie.

Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The Doctor is a rather eccentric figure with an anime wig and obssession with Pepsi, but she comes out as very competent.

Mad Scientist: In "Gender Dysphoria", they try to fix Contra's transsexuality by "turning her into a man". They attempt this by showing her a disturbing instructional video on "xenomorphic gender parasitosis" and then forcing her to inhale testosterone gas and watch videos of The Golden One until she passes out.

Mx Exposition: The Doctor's main role is usually to provide exposition.

No Name Given: In contrast to many other Natalie's characters, the Doctor isn't called by any other name that, well, the Doctor.

Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Knows about subjects ranging from Anthropology to climate change, and seems to be an expert on all of them.

Only Sane Man: The Doctor has no patience for Foppington's pseudoscientific approach to race.

Out-of-Character Moment: Their appearance in "Gender Dysphoria", as a transphobic doctor trying to force Contra to become a man, completely contradicts their appearances in other videos. Then again, the whole video is a David Lynch style nightmare narrative, so it might all be in Contra's mind.

An 18th century dandy first appearing in What is Race? Foppington embodies the historic roots of many of the prejudices that exist today, including race and degeneracy. Identifies as a Lord Foppington in her first two videos before transitioning over to Lady Foppington in Jordan Peterson.

Aristocrats Are Evil: While we don't see her perform any evil acts, she is deeply racist and holds many backwards views.

"Hello, fellow whites, do you have a moment to talk about the need to secure a homeland for our people and a future for white children?"

— "The Left"

A transgender Nazi and overall troll. Despite being blatantly a Nazi, Freya is incredibly effective at promoting Nazi ideas to the masses.

Boomerang Bigot: Freya used to be a Camp Gay Nazi. In traditionally heteronormative far-right communities that condemn homosexuality for being "degenerate", such combination isn't very welcomed, to say the least. In later episodes, she comes out as transgender (following Contra's lead), which isn't very conforming to far-right standards either.

Contra has commented in the podcast "Polite Conversations" on how a person like Freya, if she were to exist in reality, would be stabbed in the back by the Nazis as soon as they rise to power.

Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the opening to "The Left", she holds a speech about the USA being in great danger of refugees and migrants invading the country, stealing and raping, while doing hand gestures reminiscent of Donald Trump. If that's not enough, she concludes her speech by holding up two fists and saying "Make America great again. Hail victory," while staring ominously at the camera.

A Nazi by Any Other Name: Deconstructed in "Decrypting the Alt-Right: How To Recognize a Fascist". She calls herself an identitarian and an "alternative ethno-nationalist", as it is a common tactic for modern white nationalists to call themselves anything but fascists to retain their good image in the public eye.

Villain with Good Publicity: Due to her ability to successfully disguise her points under eloquent, friendly and reasonable-sounding rhetoric, she easily gains support from the audience in the beginning of The Left video and turns Jackie Jackson to her side (in a debate against Saul Saltzman, a Jewish author) in Debating the Alt-Right despite being a Nazi.

Jackie Jackson

Oh yeah! This is a hot exchange of ideas!

"Should women be allowed to vote? Can black people do science? Is a cabale of Jewish elites colluding with the Trilateral Commission to turn Atlantis gay? I guess we'll never know. The important thing is that we never stop debating."

— "TERFs"

A self proclaimed "Classical Liberal" and host of The Freedom Report  a not-so-subtle parody of The Rubin Report. Although she tries to take the center position in any debate, she often ends up parroting right-wing talking points.

Fox News Liberal: Defines herself as a "classic Liberal" with an interest in free speech and balanced points of view. It backfires on her, as she's exploited by fascists who have no interest in actual free speech, and are only using her to spread their message.

Show Within a Show: "The Freedom Report," which is one of the most prominent shows within in the series.

Some of My Best Friends Are X: Jackie tries to deny accusations of transphobia by Adria by, strangely enough, pointing that one of her best friends is gay. It isn't that strange when you consider that Jackie is hosting a a debate on whether or not Trans Equals Gay.

Spoof Aesop: "We may never know the answer [to whatever question they were debating], but what really matters is that we talked about it." This is most likely just her justification to her debates never leading anywhere and just resulting in chaos.

Stealth Insult: A particular harsh blow at Adria in "Tiffany Tumbles", Contra's performance makes it even more mean.

Adria: Well, I am a woman, and I'm attracted to women. Jackie: Eh, I don't know about that. Sounds debatable.

Unwitting Pawn: She's this to fascists, who take advantage of the media platform she gives them in order to spread conspiracy theories about Jews and lies about transgender people.

Weirdness Censor: She completely ignores all the warning signs that Fritz is a Nazi and just goes along with Abigail's "ritual of blood," but goes berserk at nonbinary pronouns.

Justine

I like stuff.

"I just realized that I actually hate you."

— Tabby to Justine, "The Left"

A left leaning moderate who is friends with Tabby. She often tries to hold back Tabby's more extreme tendencies to little success. She also hangs out with Tiffany Tumbles while constantly bickering with her over politics and gender theory.

All Love Is Unrequited: One of the few characters in the series to actually show romantic interest in another character (well, besides Jackie and "the Free Market Place of Ideas"). She is quickly shot down by Tabby. Later, despite spending much of the video chewing her out, she admits to being attracted to Tiffany in "Transtrenders."

Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder: To Tabby. Justine gives her a lot of advice in order to make her.more approachable and less confrontational to the general public in order to get the. To her side.

Justine: (...) and I suppose you think this - [takes one of her pawns in the chess game] - is ridiculous. Tabby: [Examining the chess board] ... I think it's stalemate? Justine: No, it's not. My queen's wide open.

Gayngst: She starts questioning her post-transition identity in Transtrenders, to the point of almost coming out as non-binary, but Tiffany correctly surmises that she's having trouble squaring her sexual orientation (gay) with her gender identity.

Justine: (sobbing) I love catgirls! I hate catgirls and I love catgirls!

Girly Girl: Believes that gender boils down to aesthetics and so the social role of a woman is achieved by dressing girly. In The Aesthetic, she attempts to give the more Tomboyish Tabby a makeover by making her wear dresses and high heels.

Only Sane Woman: In her relationship with Tabby and Tiffany, Justine seems to be the most down to earth one, and is far and wide the most down to earth person among Natalie's characters. She often gives sound advice to both of them.

The Peeping Tom: Tells Tabby to change in front of her, or leave the door open as she goes to take a bath, and confesses to liking watching naked people.

A far-left communist antifascist Cat Girl. In complete contrast to Freya, Tabby is well-meaning but struggles to connect with the common person, coming across as overly intellectual and militant; either lecturing people on dialectical philosophy or threatening to bash their skulls in with her trademark baseball bat.

Awesome, but Impractical: Tabby represents a lot of Natalie's criticisms of the left, namely that as awesome as it might feel to tackle a problem with guns blazing (sometimes literally), if you don't have the people on your side, you're going to struggle.

Black and White Insanity: She has a very "us vs. them" world view, showing intense dislike to everyone not on her side. She would rather inflict violence against those who oppose her as opposed to wining them over. And by "oppose her", we mean Nazis, centrists, and liberals ("liberals get the bullet too!").

Breakout Character: Since she first appeared, she's become a fan-favourite. Many love her in a way that's completely without irony. Natalie opined in an interview with Theryn Meyer that this may be because she's a trans girl who's willing to actively fight back (violently) against right-wingers, rather than merely speak out against oppression.

Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Wears a wig with cat ears and fake fangs, and communicates in a mix of obscure European political philosophy and threats of violence. She also may (ironically or unironically) be a satanist, screaming "Hail Satan!" after trying to lecture an unimpressed audience on Hegel's Science of Logic.

Drunks Are Funny: In "Violence", she interrupts Contra, who offers her a glass of spiked milk to chill out. Cut to her excitedly dancing to Boney M.'s "Rasputin", about which Contra comments that it's having a "very strange effect on her".

Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Bruce, the violent far-leftist in Punching Natsies video. Tabby is essentially Bruce updated to fit in with the evolution of the series.

Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her portrayal is mostly sympathetic, but she's still depicted as being on the wrong track overall. Though in the episode The Aesthetic, she's portrayed as the one who's mostly correct for the first time (at least on an ethical level), i.e. on militancy being an understandable reaction to the constant need to perform respectability.

Tiffany Tumbles

I am not a victim. I am in control.

"Make traps gay again!"

— "Tiffany Tumbles"

A trans YouTuber who does vlogs and makeup tutorials giving lifestyle tips for trans women. Once an intersectional feminist debating TERFs, she's now become an islamophobic Trump supporter, and thinks appealing to conservatives is the most important goal of trans politics - in order to be seen as "normal".

Alpha Bitch: She particularly gives off this vibe in "Transtrenders" towards Baltimore and Justine. Likely intentional, as a huge section of that video is Justine chewing her out for her using her Internalized Categorism as an excuse to bash on other transpeople, making her Not So Different from the same people who invalidated and bullied her for being trans.

Beneath the Mask: Despite giving the appearance that she has taken control over her life, she is deeply unhappy with a unhealthy dose of self loathing.

Break the Cutie: She's utterly shattered by the end of her titular episode, Tiffany Tumbles.

Butt-Monkey: She spends the whole of TERFS being viciously attacked by Abigail with no help from Jackie.

Characterisation Marches On: Tiffany is a seemingly left-leaning trans' rights activist in her first appearance. Now, she's a right-winger who makes fun of trans women who don't "pass" well enough for her tastes.

Control Freak: She's a depressed alcoholic struggling with dysphoria and internalized transphobia, but she won't admit it.

Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Hates the idea that she's a "victim" just because she's trans, and resents trans women who view themselves as an oppressed social caste.

Everyone Has Standards: As much she is usually prone to take Jackie Jackson's side, she is still somewhat disturbed when Jackie casually drops the slur "tranny" during a diatribe.

FaceHeel Turn: Becomes a reactionary Donald Trump supporter similar to people like Blaire White some time between her first and second appearances.

Gay Panic: Repulsed by the fact that Adria Finley from the YouTube show Intersectional AF talks about being a transgender lesbian, as well as Adria's detailed digressions on "girl dick".

Her Own Worst Enemy: Exhibits some extreme self-loathing due to being a right-wing trans woman, and therefore part of a political movement who mostly think she's just a man in a dress.

Hypocrite: Scoffs at most trans women for pushing a victim narrative, meanwhile she herself pushes a narrative about her being oppressed by the Left.

I Am Not Them: Hates the idea of people like Adria representing the trans community. Those people don't represent her, and she's extremely uncomfortable with the thought of being part of their community - she sees them as overly demanding freaks, while she on the other hand is trying to pander to the transphobic cis community to show them that trans people are just like them.

No Periods, Period: Discussed, as Tiffany is a trans woman, but that doesn't stop her from her "moon ritual."

Our Slogan Is Terrible: Her slogan is (shudder) "Make Traps Gay Again". For those not in the know, "trap" is a slur against trans women and male crossdressers, based on the stereotype that these individuals appear deceptively feminine but surprise their partners with a penis once the clothes come off. Anime fanboys in communities like 4chan have been known to debate whether attraction to such characters should be considered gay.

Wham Line: For those who watched the TERFs video first, Tiffany's phrase "Make traps gay again" in her eponymous video may catch them by surpise.

Baltimore Maryland

Why does it matter? Why do you have to know?

"If my existence is a statement, I think that says more about society than it says about me."

— "Transtrenders"

A non-binary person who was on The Freedom Report in a debate with Tiffany Tumbles. They have a very loose view of gender and embrace non-conforming identities.

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